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Dear Sister (2014)
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Original name: ディア・シスター
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Growing up, sisters Misaki and Hazuki couldn't have been more different. Misaki's charming personality and popularity stood in sharp contrast to the older, more responsible yet timid Hazuki. After high school, the two lose touch once Misaki leaves their home, only to be reunited many years later, when Misaki returns, harboring a secret.
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, dorama, sexy, novela, entertaining
Plot:
sisterhood, mother daughter relationship, teacher student relationship, terminal illness, sister sister relationship, relationships, illness, sisters, family relations, parent child relationship, mother and daughter, sibling relationship, sister, dying mother, sick mother, family tragedy, desire, forgiveness, hostess, childhood love, unwed mother, family, romance
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, psychological and semi serious films and TV series with plots about family relations, mother daughter relationship, relationships, sister sister relationship, family drama, sisters and sister mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Dear Sister: How to Kill Mom (2023), Glorious Day (2014), Dreamland (2023), These Daughters of Mine (2015), Blind Date (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother Rosalinda's life.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, satirical, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sisters, mother daughter conflict, mother daughter relationship, moral dilemma, family drama, family relations, relationships, conflict, dysfunctional family, sick mother, sister, family problems ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Han Song Jung is a novel writer. She is also a single mother who has raised three daughters: Da Ae, Da Jung and Da In. She struggles to let her three daughters to marry good men. Meanwhile, Seo Jae Woo is the eldest grandson of the family next door, ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, disturbing, dorama
Plot:
wedding planning, wedding ceremony, sister sister relationship, wedding, romantic relationship, male female relationship, relationships, wedding preparations and rituals, love affair, love and romance, love story, mother and daughter ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min.
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In town of Margate, Eldest sister Trish is pregnant and expecting a girl baby. Her sisters Clare and Leila rally around her with their mum. But other sister Mel makes an unexpected return threatens to destabilize the entire family.
Style:
thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, sibling rivalry, sisterhood, family drama, relationships, family relations, sisters, lifestyle, sister, family life, relationship problems, satire ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-with-kids life appears more orderly) and their domineering father, who gradually loses control over his family due to his ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
sisters, illness, family drama, fighting illness, family problems, sister sister relationship, parents and children, family relations, mother and daughter, mother daughter relationship, sister, sick mother ...
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lucía is a vlogger whose life depends on other people's opinions, and especially that of Maura, her mother, who watches over her all day. When Lucía's sister announces her engagement, her mother begins to worry about Lucía's ...
Style:
entertaining, psychological, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
overweight, mother daughter relationship, bet, wager, looking for love, introspection, sister sister relationship, self discovery, sister, escapades, family relations, deal ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
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The 69th NHK Asadora Drama, based on Rei Nakanishi's novel, is about the Iwata family living in Ikeda, Osaka City between 1950s and 1960s. The story is told through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Fuyuko. The family runs a bakery. The ...
Style:
asadora, captivating, entertaining, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
slice of life, mother daughter relationship, bakery, family drama, baker, teenager, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, lifestyle, family relations, sisters ...
Time:
1950s, 60s
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
When Stella finds out her terminal cancer is cured, she's going to have to learn to live with all the choices she's made when she decided to "live like she was dying".
Style:
humorous, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cancer, changing lives, adaptation, husband wife relationship, friendship, new life, relationships, healing, lifestyle change, love and romance, life turned upside down, mother daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
A popular high schooler and his oddball friend help a shy girl get rid of her bullies by attempting to make her the most popular girl in school.
Style:
dorama, captivating, humorous, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
unrequited love, bullying, high school, friendship, teenage love, friends, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, couples, love interest, love story, schoolboy ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Related is an American comedy-drama series that aired on The WB network during the 2005-2006 television season. It revolved around the lives of four close-knit sisters - of Italian descent, raised in Brooklyn - living in New York City.
The show was ...
Style:
touching, humorous, light, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, family relations, everyday life, eccentric family, city life, looking for love, sister sister relationship, workaholic, friendship, society, rivalry, attorney ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Vali and Mina are two sisters who are polar opposites, pushed apart by life’s hardships and trials. One is a singer, a dreamer and emotional. The other is a therapist, distant and rational. Their loving father has finally found the perfect ...
Style:
satirical, disturbing, psychological, captivating, heartfelt ...
Plot:
sisters, family drama, sibling relationship, reconciliation, family relations, singer, satire, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, sister, family reunited ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
After Colin Walcott drops dead at his birthday party his wife Tess and daughter Cat discover he had a long-term mistress Marilyn by whom he has a daughter Cath. An irate Tess throws out Colin's belongings whilst Cat is angry with boy-friend ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, feel good, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
sister, mother daughter relationship, mother and daughter, dead father, male female relationship, relationships, sisters, family relations, problem, secret, sister sister relationship, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As a family-run confectionery shop in Kagoshima struggles to stay in business with increasing competition from local supermarkets, the family’s three daughters experience various troubles in their private lives. The second daughter Namie recently ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
three sisters, family drama, sisterhood, sisters, sister sister relationship, life is a bitch, sister, small village, parents and children, remote village, village, children ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min.
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Ittaku lives without having a reason. One day, he falls in love with Hana who struggles with her harsh life. Hana's daughter Umi has problems with her ears and eyes. Umi has a hard time dealing with her daily life. Ittaku wants to help Hana and ...
Style:
touching, suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
disability, everyday life, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, deaf, couple relations, fighting illness, child illness, love affair, relationships, family relations, overcoming, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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Story:
Mother and daughter Astrid and Audrey are lawyers specializing in family law who take the perilous decision to work together. And how families have changed over recent years! From the bulldog being fought over by his divorcing owners to a fight over ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, thrilling, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Four unapologetically flawed women live, love, blunder and discover what really makes them tick through friendship and tequila in millennial Mumbai.
Style:
sexy, erotic, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
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Style:
novela, romantic, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, relationship problems, mother daughter relationship, relationships, male female relationship, love affair, women, family problems, mother and daughter, love interest, love story, family relations ...
Time:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style:
humorous, talky, touching, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
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Style:
soap opera, captivating, psychological, semi serious, telenovela
Plot:
rivalry, sibling rivalry, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, cancer, family relations, family problems, mother son relationship, mother son reunion, parent child relationship, family reunited, kids and family ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Stand Up!! is a Japanese television drama which ran weekly for three months in 2003. The drama, which stars Kazunari Ninomiya of Arashi and Tomohisa Yamashita of NEWS, centers around the lives of the last four virgins left in their highschool as ...
Style:
sexy, dorama, semi serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
childhood friend, summer, teenager, male virgin, male female relationship, adolescence, love affair, love, love interest, lifestyle, couple relations, life ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
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Story:
When Olcay's husband commits suicide and leaves a huge debt behind, Olcay and her teenage daughter, Duru, are forced to move to a slum in Istanbul. They find themselves financially dependent on Olcay's only remaining friend, so Olcay ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, single mother, slum, mother and daughter, female protagonist, poverty, social realism, family drama, city life, money problems, financial problem, social problems ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Sisters Alicia and Vanessa are best friends, but they begin to distance themselves in search of their identity in the adult world. Based on the triology of Amanda Schulman and Hannah Widell.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sisters, family drama, sibling relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations, family problems, siblings living together, sister, lifestyle, changing lives, family life, relationships ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
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Story:
Actor-turned-director Valérie Donzelli brings us Nona and Her Daughters, a delightful 30-minute dramedy series on the theme of motherhood. Nona, brought to life by the enchanting Miou-Miou (Going Places, Entre Nous) is a 70-year-old feminist. ...
Style:
funny, exciting, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
motherhood, pregnancy, female empowerment, feminism, sister sister relationship, sister, daughter, kids and family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, family life, three sisters ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The existence of two sisters is jostled when the youngest, Anaïs, joins her eldest, Isabelle, in Montreal (Canada). What seems like a happy reunion is a little less funny when Isabelle finds out that her little sister is living with bipolar ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, funny, touching ...
Plot:
bipolar disorder, sisters, thirty something, friendship, sibling relationship, friends, family relations, two sisters, sister, illness, sister sister relationship, older sister ...
Place:
montreal, quebec
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Story:
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Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, addiction, mother and daughter, drunkard, recovery, alcoholism, lifestyle change, alcohol abuse, lifestyle, problem, family life, family relations ...
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43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
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Story:
Junko Harumi was once a model student during her middle school and high school days. She failed to enter prestigious Tokyo University and her life has not gone smoothly since then. She has a hard time finding a job and having relationships with men. ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, romantic comedy, romantic drama
Plot:
teacher student relationship, teacher, instructor, tutor, student, apprentice, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, troubled youth, relationships, teenager, sexuality ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
The lead, Dr. Sadami Shiratori worked in the operating room at a famous Tokyo hospital was around death on a daily basis. His own father, Teizo Shiratori is also a doctor, called Grandfather as he raised the estranged children of his wayward son, he ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, father son relationship, family relations, healing, family problems, family drama, family reunited, relationships, father son estrangement, father son reunion, estranged father, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the younger sister she used to torment. Amid recriminations, revelations, a very weird shopkeeper and an ...
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, emotional, sincere
Plot:
relationships, road trip, photograph, sibling rivalry, family drama, sisterhood, sister sister relationship, photographer, family problems, travel, photography, family relations ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
This semi-autobiographical dark comedy starring Tig Notaro follows her as she returns to her hometown after the sudden death of her mother. Still reeling from her own declining health problems, Tig struggles to find her footing with the loss of the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, terminal illness, life philosophy, tragedy, hospital, patient, strong female character, illness, courage, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Elle and Joy spend their last week before their next music tour wandering through the heart of Laurel Canyon, whiling away carefree afternoons with their friends as they plan for their own going away party.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, satirical, psychological, cliffhanger
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, sister sister relationship, sisters, family problems, grownups, life is a bitch, relationships, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, party, female protagonist ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the lives of a group of women who let their hair down in more ways than one at Letty's, a vibrant and bustling hair salon in Toronto's Caribbean community. Novelette, Letty's smart and capable owner, has the answers to her ...
Style:
sitcom, captivating, thrilling, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
hairdresser, beauty salon, barbershop, ambition, love affair, lifestyle, satire, workplace, sister sister relationship, family relations, relationships, love story ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
41%
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